Staying out of them certainly doesn't seem to be working. But don't just start with drinking and smoking. I'd advise you going right into hallucinagens. You could begin with mushrooms but why not just jump right into things and locate yourself some good old fashioned acid.

But let me plant a thought in your brain before you begin tripping. You're right on with the reincarnation theme and your next life will be as a genital herpes virus. That seems to be the obvious path you're on. That thought should make for an interesting introspection.

Oh, and your comment about me hanging you if you were a black man, you might have had something there if I were of a fan of capital punishment, but only if along with being black you were a murderous, self-absorbed bully. You see Techie, I learned long ago that skin color has little to do with who a person is. Instead you get to find out a person's true soul by their words and actions.

You try to paint this picture of you as this purveyor of calm and peace but your political views all speak of international distrust controlled only by war, greed, bloodshed, and domination. All the murderous despots of the world began with the same theme and claimed that only they knew the true path. All eventually end in failure amid the bodies they leave behind but they could be stopped early in their quests if strong-minded, ethical people stand up to them at the first stirrings of insanity. It doesn't even have to be armed opposition. One needs only to shine the light bright upon the basic corrosive nature of these men's souls and shout it loud to all that will listen. Consider this the beginning of a loud and long shout.

Art